If you’re still confused about the process of self-publishing, working with publishers and agents, organizing a nonfiction or
fiction book, targeting
your audience and developing a promotions
plan, this is the book you’ve been waiting
for.
The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book is a long-time coming. This
definitive guide to successful authorship details critical information about
the publishing industry in frank terms. It includes numerous anecdotes to
illustrate the processes involved in successful authorship. And it highlights
the rewards and the ramifications of your publishing decisions.
This book walks hopeful authors through the writing,
publishing and book promotion process and beyond. You’ll learn how to:
- Write
with more clarity.
- Choose
a good editor to polish your finished product.
- Locate
the right publisher for your book.
- Select
the best agent for your project
- Write
query letters and book proposals.
- Understand
your responsibility as an author.
- Successfully
self-publish your book.
- Get
your book into bookstores.
- Get
your book reviewed many times over.
- Successfully
promote and sell your book.
- Make
money writing articles that promote your book.
- Locate
and work with distributors and wholesalers.
Patricia Fry has been writing for publication for over 30
years. She has contributed hundreds of articles to about 200 magazines and she
is the author of 24 published books—8 of them relate to authorship.
Patricia is the president of SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers
Network). Because of her affiliation with SPAWN and the research she does each
month toward writing the SPAWN Market Update, she keeps her finger on the pulse of the publishing industry.